This product is Lily Bulb, a perennial herbaceous plant of the Lily Bulb family (Lilium brownii F. E. Brown var. viridulum Baker) or fine-leafed Lily Bulb (L. pumilum DC.) fleshy scale leaves. It is produced in all parts of the country, mostly in Hunan and Zhejiang. Excavate it in autumn, wash it, peel off the scale leaves, scald them slightly in boiling water and dry them. Use raw or roasted with honey.

[Property]

sweet, slightly cold. act on lung and heart channels.

[Efficacy]

nourishing yin and moistening lung, clearing the heart and tranquilizing the spirit.

[Indications]

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

1. It is used for lung yin deficiency dryness-heat cough and chronic cough disease, blood in sputum, etc. It can enrich yin and clearing the lung, moistening dryness and relieving cough. To treat dryness-heat cough with blood in the sputum, often combined with Coltsfoot Flower of medicinals, such as Jisheng Fang Flowers Ointment; to treat lung disease Deficiency chronic cough disease, hemoptysis, often used with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root Huang, Scrophularia Root, Tendrilleaf Fritillary Bulb, etc., such as Lily Bulb Metal-Securing Decoction.
2. Used for Rebing residual heat, palpitation due to fright, insomnia dreamfulness, etc. It can clear the heart and tranquilizing the spirit. Often used with Anemarrhena and Unprocessed Rehmannia Root Yellow, such as Lily Bulb Anemarrhena soup, Lily Bulb and Rehmannia Decoction .

[Documentation]

1. Rihuazi Bencao: "Safe, calm courage, improve intelligence, nourish five zang-organs. Cure epilepsy, crying, barking, palpitation due to fright."
2. Gangmu Supplement: "Clear phlegm and fire, repair deficiency and damage."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 10~30g. clearing heart is suitable for raw use, and for moistening the lungs and honey.

[Modern Pharmacology]

Lily Bulb contains colchicine and other alkaloids as well as starch, protein, fat, etc. Decoction has an antitussive effect on ammonia-induced cough in mice and can combat toad asthma caused by tissue oxygen. In addition, it also has hypoxia resistance.